Discussion of the archaeological ethics surrounding the collecting of antiquities.

Thursday, May 19, 2011

Sifting the Soil of Greece

Sifting the Soil of Greece explores students at the British School at Athens from 1886 to the end of the First World War.

The antiquities dealer R. de Rustafjaell appears as a member of Robert Carr Bosanquet's team at Cyzicus. His proposal to export some of the finds was rejected.

Material from some of the BSA's excavations in Greece and on Cyprus was donated to various museums in the UK. This will be of interest to those who have been discussing the issue of partage in the contemporary cultural property debate.

David W.J. Gill, Sifting the Soil of Greece: the Early Years of the British School at Athens (1886-1919). Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, suppl. 111. London: Institute of Classical Studies, 2011. ISBN 978-1-905670-32-1. £38. xiv + 474 pp.

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David Gill is Professor of Archaeological Heritage and Director of Heritage Futures at University Campus Suffolk. He was a Rome Scholar at the British School at Rome and a Sir James Knott Fellow at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne. He was subsequently part of the Department of Antiquities at the Fitzwilliam Museum, University of Cambridge, and Reader in Mediterranean Archaeology, Swansea University. He holds the Archaeological Institute of America's Outstanding Public Service Award (2012).